Beaded Global Warming

Just a quick note to feature this beautiful beadwork illustrating global warming in North America.

By Peggy Dembicer on flickr.
What a beautiful piece of artwork to bring attention to this threat to our global ecosystem.

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Center for Land Use Interpretation

Here is a group I want to find out a lot more about: The Center for Land Use Interpretation. I discovered them from a little sidebar in the New York Times on the Hudson River which mentioned their new book, Up River: Man-Made Sites of Interest on the Hudson from the Battery to Troy. [...]

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The Bottle Project

Somehow, I managed to miss all pre-press about The Bottle Project in Atlanta, an installation in a park walking distance to my house. Last night, I was walking over there, and happened upon part of it that remains – it was supposed to be installed through September, but it looks like the Department [...]

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TED: Chris Jordan Picturing Excess

Take a few minutes to watch this video: Chris Jordan Pictures Excess – TED Talk 2008
Artist Chris Jordan talks about his work at the TED Conference earlier this spring – in his own words here from his website:
Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a [...]

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A better use for juice pouches

This article in yesterday’s New York Times about concert pianist Soyeon Lee’s efforts to raise awareness about recycling and reusing was really neat. She wears gowns made from recycled juice pouches and plays pieces that have been “recycled”. After watching the Story of Stuff together, my daughter and I decided not to use juice boxes [...]

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Toxic Reef – Hyperbolic Crochet

I’ve been following the work of Margaret and Christine Wertheim, founders of the Institute for Figuring, for a few years now. I tried my own hand at hyperbolic crochet, and was invited by Margaret to contribute to her coral reef project. At one point, I had intended to make something of the collection [...]

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Green film award

Winner of Friends of the Earth’s Best One-minute green film award. This simple film documents the horrors of plastic overpackaging of a child’s toy.  After wrestling with all the packaging, the child is too tired even to play with her new toys.

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The writing’s on the road: flood ‘mapping’

One of the most important tools for insurers and governments are maps produced by the FEMA National Flood Insurance Program. These are officially accepted maps that insurance companies use to determine insurance rates for homes and businesses in case of flooding and to set zoning ordinances by governments. The maps are available, but [...]

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StartMotions

Finally, some more trashy art! Via the NRDC magazine, OnEarth, I learned of StartMotions a studio that generates stop-motion animation films of animals made from trash!
The studio’s mission is:
We create fun and entertaining animations that inform and enthuse audiences around the world about animals, plants, and the environment. We explore [...]

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Say it with comics

I thought this comic by Lynn Johnson so nicely summed up the frustration many of us feel.  Those of us who take a lot of personal responsibility in our daily activities to reduce our impact on the environment still look around and see the overwhelming tide of civilization washing over us, negating everything we have [...]

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